theocracy

1. 1.

   a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided)

   Broaderpolitical system

   Narrowerchurch-statehierocracy
2. 2.

   the belief in government by divine guidance

   Broaderpolitical orientation

Other forms of theocracy

plural

theocracies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about theocracy

What does theocracy mean?

theocracy means "a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in theocracy?

theocracy has 4 syllables: the-o-cra-cy. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /θiˈɑkɹəsi/.

Is theocracy a common word?

theocracy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.